Accession No

1948.1265


Description

Bowl of brownish ware, with everted rim, angular shoulder and flat base. Undecorated. Reconstructed from sherds and plaster infill.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1265


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

152mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed green label on pot's exterior reads: 'Little Wilbraham'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


Context (Field collection)
Possibly from an inhumation burial.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note reads: 'Vase from a Barrow in Five Hill Field near Melbourn, Cambridge'. [Although found with 1948.1265, it refers to one of there vessels from Five Hill Field that was also in the Braybrooke Collection, most likely 1948.347. 11/20/2020 Imogen Gunn]
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851
Event Date 1851
Author: maa


Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray. (not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


Description (CMS Description)
?Inhumation. 'Reconstructed using infill material. J. Somerville 23/3/2001.'
Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Bowl of brownish ware, with everted rim, angular shoulder and flat base. Undecorated. Reconstructed from sherds and plaster infill.
Event Date 8/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


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